We’re fighting fewer fires, for fewer residents, and no one in City Government sees an issue with this??? Instead of finding out why, the Mayor deems hiring more firefighters (and their budget busting pensions) as the answer…undoing the “right sizing” that was miraculously implemented a few years ago.

At the very least, the Mayor and the Council could pretend they want to end the cycle of ever increasing taxes — by proposing the hiring of new firegfighters come with the caveat that a new pension framework be in place for all new FD hires moving forward. With 12-13% unemployment rate, there’d be no shortage of applicants.

I of course know this will never happen. Pretty soon the FD will have a city full of vacant homes to protect. I plan on leaving soon.